Mail-bag delivering and receiving device.



O. E. .l. BRUBAKER & G. MOTES. MAIL BAG DELIVERING AND RECEIVINGDEVI-CE.

APPLICAT |0N FILED AUG.6, 1914.

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0. E. J. BRUBAKER & G. MOTES. MAIL BAG DELIVERING AND RECEIVING DEVICE.

APPLICATION HLED AUG.6. 1914.

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MAIL BAG DELIVERING AND RECEIVING DEVICE.

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Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

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7 Be it known that we, OLIVER E. J. BRU- BAKER and Gnonen Morns,citizens of the United States, residing at Harden, in the county ofSciotoand State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Mail-Bag Delivering and Receive ing Devices; and we dodeclare the LEOllowing to be a full, clear, and exact description ,ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for simultaneouslydelivering ,and receivinganail sacks and the like and has for its mainobject to provide a ,device of this character which may be simply andinexpensively constructed yet one which vwill be highly efficient inoperation. 7 f

- Incarryingout the above end, independent mail receiving and deliveringmechanisms are employed on the mail coach and vat ,points .along therailway, the mechanism employed at the last mentioned positionscomprising a flexible track which extends longitudinally of the railwayand which is supported intermediate its ends by an arm projecting:laterally from an upright post, a carriage having grooved rollersmounted upon said :track, a receiving arm pivoted to said carriage,still another arm projecting from said post above the receiving armandcoactingibag devices on said .last mentioned arm and the .arm spaced,above the same, for suspending a mail bag therebetween.

Aiurther object of the invention is .to soconstruct the carriage'and theparts carried thereby as to allow the suspended bag to .act vas meansfor retaining the pivoted receiving arm in horizontalor operativeposition, this construction allowing said receiving arm .to drop bygravity when the bag supporting the same has been removed.

A further object ,of the invention is to so position .one not therollers \of the ..,carriage as to cause the same to ,coact with a'plateto .be described for the purpose ofprevena ing said carriage fromtilting when the parts are in operative position.

With these objects in view, the invention resides .in certain novelfeatures of construction and combination herein described and claimedand shown in the drawings 7 ation ofra mail coach,.thepartstcarriedrthereby, a d h e ee ing Pe i pee t e e to on side of thera lway; Figs. 2 3 are repee w ly e eld l va on n a pl n vie of theparts shown in Fig. l and illustrating more particularly the mounting ofthe t a k t b ,d e bed; F 4 i e verti transverse sect on taken on theline ,of

' iv ted t e e o; igi an enla ge vertical section ,taken ,on the line ofig- 4 t th Pa t in th peei ie sh w in dotted 1ines,:in said figure.

In the e e penying drawing e ma .car C is illustrated having the usual,doorway D which is nsnally equipped with n mai atc ing rm A, {the etibeingl er show e o su s nt l y rk ap and as mounted upon a rockshaft S,the latter be g p ed wi a nward y ,eX eedin ep rat ng adl y me ns o Whhtli a m .A .m v be hrow t its t e e 1.0 ene a vemp e ti n o t it nn r ei nepe zet e .pesltle u he a m A pre ided t suitable point with alongitudinally project- 1g finge h eh is ap ed t receiv en o the i r i dy the pp site en of a mailbag? 3, the ring at the opposite end of saidbag being adapted to surround e end fing 4 WhiQh liee i ee y l eneat thfing r a d wh 1 r'ee i e ame e downwardly and outwardly curved ,5,

the ppe d re sa am being secu to a shatt 6 lying parallel to thesha-ft.- S, said shaft 6. being rotatably mounted in bearings I? carriedby one .side of the ear C adjacent the doorway 5D and ,being normallyrocked to swing ,the arm 5 inwardly, by a coil spring '8 which issecured at its opposite ends to the frame of thedoorway D and .to an arm9 which extends inwardly from said shaft ,6. It .will be noted that th se- 6 :p eiee e nly emai distanc intotheidoorway D, I

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:t es; h ebe imen en d ea fo del ie ;i g a m i b g r m th .i eae CL-e d:fe ir ceivinga bag'fro m the mechanismpow togbe scribed whi h vi p aed-a acent the ra l- Positioned a suitable distance to one side of therailway are,;apai r of n-prigl tp osts l0 an an t ia e :POS 1 whieh iscated nearer to ;the track than are the posts upper surface, a plate 13which projectslongitudinally. therefrom, said plate having its free endbowed upwardly and inwardly as at 14 to provide a'transverse loop asmost clearly seen in Fig. 4, this loop embracing the intermediateportion of a cable 15 which constitutes a track whose opposite ends areunited at 16 to the upper ends of the posts 10 at points spacedconsiderably above the arm 12. r

-Mounted for movement upon the cable 15 is a carriage 17 whichpreferably comprises a casing formed of a single metal plate 18 which isbent substantially upon itself at 19, this bend constituting the upperend of the casing from which one free end of the plate depends asindicated at 20 and is formed into pivot loops or knuckles 21 from whichsaid free end rises at 22 in spaced relation to the upright portion 20,a pair of cylindrical rollers 23 being located between the portions 20and 22, said rollers normally underlying the track 15 while a pair ofgrooved rollers 24 a'rerevolubly mounted between the upper end of theportion 20 and the opposite end portion 25 of the-plate 18 whichdependsfrom the bend 19 and lies parallel to said portion 19, saidgrooved rollers 24 ridthat the rollers 23 may be allowed to contact withthe under side of the plate 13 whenthe device is in operative position,thus preventing the carriage 17 from tilting upon the track.

Spaced toward the railway from the carriage 17, is a substantiallyT-shaped block 26 to Whose shank a pair of forked receiving arms 27' aresecured, said arms projecting in opposite directions. As clearly seen inthe various figures of the drawings, the head of the T-shaped block 26is provided with a pair of lugs 28 which straddle the knuckles 21, 'asuitable pivot pin or bolt 29 being passed through said knuckle and saidears whereby the arms 27 are pivotally connected with the carriage 17.The block 26 is also provided with alaterally extending finger 30whichis preferably provided with an upright shank 31, the latter beingthreaded through the block 26 and a boss formed on the "upper sidethereof and receiving a nut 32 on its lower end; It may herebc explainedthat the arms 27 are positioned in the plane in which the center orcontracted portion ofthe bag 3 is located, thereby allowing one of saidarms to receive said bag as the coach 0 moves past the mechanismsupported at the side of the railway.

-Projecting toward the railway fromthe central post 11 and preferablylying parallel the arm A carried by the coach C, to engage its centralportion whereby the sack 36 will be taken from the crane by the passingcoach, thereby simultaneously receiving and delivering the pair of bags.a

"Fromthe foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, it will be seen that the bag 36 supportsthereceiving arms 27 in operative position and that said "arms 27 areallowed to fall to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 4 when saidbag 36 is removed by the mechanism of the coach. Before descendinghowever, one of the arms 27 receives the mail bag '3 from said coach,the momentum'of said bag 3 now causing the carriage 17 and the arms 27to travel up one of the inclined ends of the'cable 15, thus graduallychecking the momentum and bringing the delivered sack and'its carryingmeans to a standstill.

' As hereinbefore suggested, and as clearly seen in Fig. 4, the rollers23 may be positioned directly beneath the plate 13 when the parts standin the position seeninthis ing upon the cable or track 15 as clearlyseen in the drawings. It may here be explained,

figure, thus absolutely preventing the carriage 17 from tilting upon itsflexible track H1 or cable 15.

We havedescribed and illustrated two.

arms 27 but it will be clear that'but one of these'arms' becomes activewhen the coach is traveling in one direction while the oppositearm maybe employed for a railway having a single track only, in which case itbecomes necessary for the coaches to run in opposite directions upon thesame track.

We may here explain that by pivotallyr connecting the arms 27 With thecarriage 17, the weight of said arms pulling normally downward upon thesack 36 suspends the same in a normally stretched condition to bereadily engaged by the arm A.

By a careful inspection of the disclosures made in the accompanyingillustrations in connection with the preceding description andexplanation, it is thought thatthe construction and operation of thedevice will be;

readily understood.

: -Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desireto secure'by Letters Patent is a p I 1. A combined bag receiving anddelivering device comprising a track located to one side of andextending longitudinally of a railway, a carriage on said track, a bagrece1v1ng arm pivoted to sald carriage and -projecting toward therailway, a support 'spacedabove said catching arm, and independent bagholding-devices on said arm and said support for suspending a mail bagtherebetween. v

2. A combined bag receiving and delivering device comprisinga tracklocated to one side of and extending longitudinally of a railway, acarriage on said track, a block pivoted to said carriage, a bagreceiving arm arm, and independent bag holding devices on said receivingarm and said support for suspending a mail bag therebetween. f

3. A combined bag receiving and delivering device comprising a tracklocated to one side of andextending longitudinally of a railway, acarriage having supporting rollers revoluble upon said track, saidcarriage having a pivot knuckle, a block spaced toward the railway fromsaid carriage, an ear formed on said block and pivoted to said knuckle,a bag receiving arm carriedrigidly by said block, a support above saidarm, and independent bag holding devices on said support and saidreceiving armto support a bag therebetween. 7 7

4. A combined bag receiving and delivering device comprising a track,located to one side of and extending longitudinally of a railway, acarriage having supporting roll ers revoluble upon said track, saidcarriage having a pivot knuckle, a block spaced toward the railway fromsaid carriage, a paira bag receiving arm carried rigidly by said block,a bag holding finger formed on said. block, a support above said fingeranda bag holding device thereon for coaction with said finger to suspendabag therebetween. carried by said block, a support above said 1 5 Adevice of the character described comprising an upright support locatedto one side of a railway,v an arm projecting from the support toward therailway, a plate projecting longitudinally from the free end of saidarm, a transverse loop formed,

on the upper surface of said plate at its free end, a track extendinglongitudinally of the railway and having its intermediate portiondisposed in said loop,-a carriage having roll ers contacting with theupper side of the track, and 7 an additional roller contacting with theunder side of said plate, and an arm projecting toward the railway fromsaid carriage. g

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

, OLIVER E. J. BRUBAKER.

enonen MOTES.

Witnesses:

BERT SoorT, PAUL GROVER.

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